It would have said Clement Freud on the dustjacket, but it wasn't until I was a lot older that I gained the fluency with numbers to put two and two together and realise that it was the Clement Freud, broadcaster, journalist, jockey, raconteur, politician, bon viveur and, now, sadly, none of these things as he died last week.

Admitting "there are no simple answers" in the novel-to-film transition, Sutherland cites one critic's view of Elinor tending Marianne at her sickbed as a Vampiric lesbian translation of the novel-to-film relationship, and then alludes to how the film is described as a "'labour of love'" on "the dustjacket of .

With its wide margins, vertically set captions, faux aged pages and split bindings and full-bleed cover photograph of the Hero Parade's marching boys hidden below a seemingly staid dustjacket, everything about Chris Brickell's Mates and Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand suggests it has been designed with an eye for the History category of the Montana book awards.

The blurb on the dustjacket of Quinn's substantial account of the life of Patrick Kavanagh opens with a reminder that one of contemporary Ireland's leading poets, Seamus Heaney, has repeatedly argued for Kavanagh's position, alongside W.

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